100 x 100 cm

Acrylic on canvas

This; the second in my Nucleus series of paintings, uses combinations of form and colour inspired by the area of France I was staying in at the time (a village about 12km from Saumur called Varennes-sur-Loire). The blues in the centre are reminiscent of the conical slate turret rooves on grand local buildings. The paler colours towards the outside edge symbolise the Tuffeau limestone used in the construction of almost every building in the region.

100 x 100 cm

Acrylic on canvas

This piece was on show at Studio Kind, Braunton as part of the Unit 6 Takeover which ran from 10th - 23rd September 2022. I finished it just hours before having to drop it off at the gallery for curation/hanging.

Symbolism, abstraction and particular colour blends tangle from the outside-in, the central glow being the crucible from which new forms emerge.

The symbols are largely inspired by the plight of the ordinary Ukrainian people affected by the ongoing war in their country.

40.64 x 40.64 x 3.81 cm

Acrylic on cradled wooden panel

The contrast of ‘machine’ (any we use) and the natural world is a constant source of inspiration for me. The juxtaposition of artificial and organic and the desire to bring these two aesthetics closer together with design is an ongoing struggle of humanity. This painting combines artificial and organic symbolism and attempts to represent that struggle visually.

40.64 x 40.64 x 3.81 cm

Acrylic on cradled wooden panel

20.32 x 20.32 x 3.81 cm

Acrylic on cradled wooden panel

A painting that took me several attempts to get right.

Street lights, the electric colouring of early-summer plant life illuminated by those lights and shadows around buildings all came to mind for me when working on this.

20.32 x 20.32 x 3.81 cm

Acrylic on cradled wooden panel

The colours and shapes here are to me, reminiscent of a dark and shady but erotic urban aesthetic. Only a tiny amount of black is used but the martini glass near the bottom with maraschino cherries, the fox in the top left and some of the angular shapes suggesting lit streets, all add to an elegant but dangerous abstract scene.

20.32 x 20.32 x 3.81 cm

Acrylic on cradled wooden panel

The shapes and colours here borrow heavily from those of late summer/early autumn or nearing harvest time (around when I started work on this, along with other paintings).

20.32 x 20.32 x 3.81 cm

Acrylic on cradled wooden panel

This piece is my interpretation of the phenomenon of reflection, either physical or as a thought process in the human mind, the often sharp forms representing fragments of broken glass or part-memories.

This continues my exploration into more expressive, abstract territories and my increasing use of psychic automatism as a form of mark-making.